California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Rogers, G052346 (Cal. App. 2016):
Counsel filed a brief which set forth the procedural facts of the case (the facts of the crimes themselves are irrelevant because the only available issue is the restitution hearing). Counsel did not argue against his client, but advised us there were no issues to argue on his behalf. Appellant was invited to express his own objections to the proceedings against him, but did not. Under the law, this put the onus on us to review the record and see if we could find any issues that might result in some kind of amelioration of appellant's lot. (People v. Wende (1979) 25 Cal.3d 436 (Wende).) It should be emphasized that our search was not for issues upon which appellant would prevail, but only issues upon which he might possibly prevail.
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